Research Achievements

February 13, 2009

Riordan Clinic doctor elected to the Japanese College of Intravenous Therapy

Ron Hunninghake, chief medical officer at the Riordan Clinic, was elected to the Japanese College of Intravenous Therapy as International Advisory Board members on Feb. 13, 2009.

May 2, 2008

Medical Research Award goes to Adult Stem Cell Scientists at a Kansas not-for-profit Organization

Wichita, KS March 20, 2008 - Scientists at the Riordan Clinic Research Institute, a division of the Riordan Clinic, received a prestigious award for a scientific article about its recent stem cell discovery. The scientific journal article entitled "Endometrial regenerative cells: A novel stem cell population" received BioMed Central¹s Research Article of the Year in Medicine Award sponsored by Microsoft Research. Dr. Xiaolong Meng, the lead author of the article and Associate Director of BCRI was in London, England yesterday to receive the award at the Royal Society of Medicine alongside Tom Ichim, co-author and CEO of MediStem Laboratories, Inc. The paper was published in November 2007 in the Journal of Translational Medicine. The award recognizes excellence in research that has been made universally accessible through open access publication in one of BioMed Central's peer reviewed scientific journals. The article is freely available at Endometrial regenerative cells: A novel stem cell population. (Article will open in a new window)

The staff at the Riordan Clinic led the research team, composed of U.S. and Canadian scientists who identified and characterized a new type of stem cell that can be reproducibly isolated from menstrual blood collected from healthy women.

"We are extremely proud of the international recognition our scientists and collaborators are receiving for the discovery of this new type of stem cell," said Dr. Neil Riordan, co-author and President of MediStem. "We believe that these adult stem cells, which we have termed endometrial regenerative cells (ERC), offer a novel alternative to embryonic stem cells which are fraught with scientific and ethical issues."

"The ERC population appears to be superior to other stem cell types. These cells do not require matching with the recipient, they home to areas of injury or tissue damage, and they can differentiate into most of the tissue types found in the body," said Dr. Xiaolong Meng.

International Organization Honors Kansas Physician and Progressive Health Center

(Vancouver B.C.) A pioneering Kansas physician, and the Wichita health facility that he leads, were jointly honored at a recent international medical conference held in Vancouver B.C. April 11-14, 2002.

Hugh Desaix Riordan, M.D., Wichita, Kansas, USA, was named the Outstanding Orthomolecular Physician of the Year at the annual meeting of The International Society For Orthomolecular Medicine (ISOM). Dr. Riordan also accepted an award for World Leadership in Orthomolecular Medicine, presented to the Riordan Clinic for "its [then] 27 years of outstanding work in the field of Orthomolecular based clinical, educational and research service to the benefit of humankind."

Orthomolecular medicine is based upon the use, whenever possible, of optimal amounts of substance that ordinarily occur within the human body. The word ortho means straight or correct. Orthomolecular implies the correction of an individual's biochemistry at the molecular level. The term Orthomolecular was first coined by Linus Pauling, a two-time Nobel Prize winner.

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